Among Willows Event with Cynthia Fan - Wednesday 10th June 2026

Join us in the bookshop to hear Cynthia Fan in conversation about Among Willows: Essays on Plant Form and Family.

6.30pm on Wednesday 10th June at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ.

Buy a copy of Among Willows and receive free entry to the event, or choose our Ticket-Only option for £6 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).

Among Willows is due to be published on 11th May. Any pre-orders will be sent out/made available to collect on or just after that date.

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About Among Willows Plants not only make our lives possible but meaningful. So why do we think so little of their everyday presence? Since childhood, Cynthia Fan has made plants her life's work – scientifically studying, artistically arranging, and simply obsessing over their surprising quirks and nature. In this, her debut collection of plant writing, Fan ponders the most profound questions of plant life – What exactly is a leaf? How does a plant think? – by delving into her own, as well as the world around her, whether it be in the South Africa of her birth, the China of her ancestors, or the blustery Britain in which she works today.

Accompanied by her own photos and sculptural arrangements, Fan finds both plants and people in a constant dance of deception and adaptation, inviting her readers to marvel at the true fluidity of biology, the supremacy of serendipity, and the porous boundaries between self and environment.

About Cynthia Fan Cynthia Fan is an artist and researcher with a background in plant science and floristry. She holds a PhD in plant molecular biology from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, and is one half of Pear_ed collective which spends time with plants between Cape Town, London and Amsterdam. As a contributing writer for The Plant and a former artist-in-residence at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York City, her work reflects an ongoing relationship with the plants around her.